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  Full details  WANT TO BE A PART OF FUTURE RUSTICA EDITIONS? Now’s your chance! We’re accepting submissions for the next edition of RUSTICA. Whether you’re a visual artist or a writer, we want YOU to send us works that you think would suit future releases. If you’re interested, please send .pdfs/.jpgs of your work to rusticajournal@gmail.com . Our team will review your materials and let you know if you’re eligible to be featured. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Rustica is a print and online literary and arts journal. We accept writing from any genre, including poetry, essays, literary criticism, fiction, dramatic writing, and translation. For visual art, our tastes are similarly broad but rigorous; accepted work will be able to communicate with our readers from within the confines of a trade paperback-sized piece of paper. Our submission period for Rustica 3, which is being released fall of 2024, is now open. Writers wishing to be considered for...

  Full Details   f you are from a group or community that has to fight especially hard to have your creative work seen/heard, we'd love you to submit to us. ​ ​ ​ Previously unpublished work only. ​ ​ One submission per person per submission period. ​ ​ ​ Please submit in  one  of the following categories: short story up to 4000 words​; creative nonfiction up to 4000 words; flash fiction up to 1000 words; poetry up to 3 pages. This can be between 1 and 3 poems. Please begin each poem on a new page; work in translation up to the word/page limit of the relevant category; visual art/photography up to 2 pieces (in a single document). ​ ​ If you exceed the relevant word count or submit too many pieces, your work will not  be considered.​ ​ ​ ​ If you are submitting work-in-translation, you must first gain permission from the relevant publisher. Please include the text in its original language. ​ ​ ​ Your wor...

  Full details  American Chordata is a literary and arts magazine based out of Brooklyn, NY. Our annual print magazine is published in the Fall.  Submissions in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Translation are accepted from January 15th to March 15th. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Writers will be notified of a decision by June 1. Art and Photography submissions are accepted year-round. Artists will be notified if they have been selected for a Fall issue by September 1.  We invite you to subscribe for an idea of what we like, and to check us out on Instagram @americanchordata and Twitter @americhord .      

 Full details  Submissions and pitches Before sharing your work with us, consider familiarizing yourself with what we’ve published recently . Please only submit work that has not been published in print or appeared in online publications previously in English. We happily accept simultaneous submissions and just ask that you promptly notify us via the messaging system in Submittable if some of your work is accepted elsewhere, or withdraw your submission if the whole of it has been accepted elsewhere. We support you on your journey! Fall Short Fiction Workshop: Open for Applications! Northwest Review is pleased to announce its first fiction workshop. Starting on Tuesday November 14 , accepted writers will meet in the Northwest Review editorial office in downtown Portland at 111 SW 5th Ave for a two hour fiction workshop led by editor in chief S. Tremaine Nelson. The Northwest Review fiction workshop will follow the Columbia University MFA Program model in which wri...

 Full details  GENERAL SUBMISSION  INFORMATION  Lunch Ticket ’s 21st Issue comes out in June 2022. The submission window for Lunch Ticket 's issue #21 is February 1st to March 1st . The submission window for Amuse-Bouche is January 15th to April 15th. Our submission window for Visual Art is rolling. We review VA submissions all year. Submitting to Lunch Ticket is always free. There is no age requirement to submit to our magazine. Submissions from individuals younger than 18 are acceptable and encouraged. We welcome multilingual submissions in all genres. For all genres, contests, and Amuse-Bouche you will receive a selection notification. We will contact you no matter the result of your submission. Lunch Ticket is an online literary and visual art journal, published in June and December. We are proud to host two prizes, the Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts. We publis...

 Full details  For Authors Héloïse Press is currently accepting manuscripts in English that are consistent with our editorial line. If you think that we could be interested in your story, please send us a review of your book together with the first ten pages. For Translators If you think you have discovered a little gem that might be of interest to Héloïse, do pitch it to us! Please, include a book review and a sample translation that can give us a good idea of the book.  

  Full details  The editors of West Branch welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. We normally read unsolicited manuscripts between August 1st and April 1st. We print only original, unpublished work. For accepted work, we purchase First North American serial rights. Payment is awarded for accepted works in the amount of $50 per submission of poetry, and $.05/word for prose with a maximum payment of $100. Additionally, we provide each contributor with two copies of the issue in which his/her work appears and a one-year subscription to West Branch. Please review the submission guidelines below before submitting using the online submission manager: All manuscripts should be paginated, with the author's name on each page. Prose should be double-spaced and include a word count. Please send no more than six poems or thirty pages of prose. You may submit up to three pieces of short-form fiction (flash, short-shorts, etc.) so long as...

Full details General Guidelines We are pleased to announce that beginning with our Spring issue, all contributors will be paid 15 dollars! Our submission fee policy is as follows: Standard Submissions are free. We try to respond to all free submissions within thirty days. Feel free to query after two months. Expedited Submissions are $3. We guarantee a response within two weeks for these submissions. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through Submittable. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content. Your name should appear on you cover letter but not in the submission. POETRY GUIDELINES MudRoom publishes poetry of all types. You can email poetry submissions to mud.room.submissions@gmail.com . To submit, please send 3-5 original,  previously unpublished  poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maxim...

 Full details  Mistake House Submission Guidelines Mistake House Magazine welcomes fiction and poetry by writers currently enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs from around the world, including work by previously unpublished writers.   Editorial Mission Last year Mistake House Magazine rolled out a new tag line: a space between ordinary and odd. We couldn’t have imagined a more peculiar space than 2020, a year in which the “ordinary” became the “odd” space of global lockdowns and sheltering in place, economic disruption and increasing economic disparity, global cultural divisiveness and political polarization, a deepening climate crisis, and the urgent need for inclusivity and equity.   While 2020 kept slamming people with hardship and troubling news, the problems it presented already existed; and as the world emerges from 2020 into the unknowable future, writers will join others in understanding and addressing these problems.  Th...

 Full details  We have separate guidelines for our short story contests and regular submissions. We run two short story contests a year, the American Short(er) Fiction contest in the winter/spring, and The Halifax Ranch Prize for Fiction in the spring/summer, plus the Insider Prize for incarcerated writers in Texas. Please check our homepage for current contest information. Guidelines for regular submissions are below; please follow these guidelines for all non-contest submissions. Submission Details: Regular Submissions American Short Fiction  has published, and continues to seek, short fiction by some of the finest writers working in contemporary literature, whether they are established or new or lesser-known authors. In addition to its triannual print magazine,  American Short Fiction  also publishes stories (under 2000 words) online. Submit here . Unsolicited submissions will be accepted from August through December . During other tim...

  Full details Guidelines Bennington Review is published twice a year in print form, Summer and Winter. Submissions are customarily read every fall, winter, and spring. The next submissions period will be from November 1, 2020 to May 8, 2021. We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” we are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless. We only accept unsolicited submissions through Submittable . There is, at present, no reading fee. We are unable to respond to paper submissions or unsolicited e-mail submissions, or to comment on individual pieces. Submissions response times vary, though we aim to respond to most submissions within five to eight months. We pay contributors $100 for prose of six typeset pages and under, $200 for prose of over six ty...

Full details an independent, international literary magazine Home Advertising Festival Links Mentoring Online Workshops About From Recent Issues Notes Submissions Subscribe/Donate Blog Contact Submissions We invite submissions of poetry, prose poems, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, translations, interviews and reviews. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or previously published material. There is no set theme. However, we are looking for the unusual, perceptive, risk-taking as well as the imagistic, lived and visionary. Some linkage between language use and more than one event in any line would grab the editor’s attention. We receive more than 1200 poems per month and aim to respond to every submission within two months. This could be longer if a poem is shortlisted. We recommend buying the latest issue of the magazine to obtain a stronger sense of our requirements. We publish a diversity of styles and approaches in the beli...

Full details Gulf Coast is committed to supporting the authors who publish in our journal. This support takes many forms, including offering editorial guidance, exposing new work to the widest possible audience, and providing competitive honorariums for that work. We believe this financial support is vital to maintaining a vibrant literary culture. To this end, Gulf Coast has instituted a small reading fee ($2.50) for regular submissions, 100% of which will go toward increasing the honorariums for the authors whose work we publish in the journal and on the website. Gulf Coast is now able to pay $50 per page for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We thank you for your support of the authors who make Gulf Coast possible. Gulf Coast reads general submissions, submitted through the online submissions manager, from September 1 through March 1. We do not accept general submissions via e-mail or post. Please visit our contest page for contest submission guidelines. If you are ...

Full details Founded in 1981, BOMB Magazine is dedicated to delivering the artist's voice. BOMB includes a print quarterly magazine and an online daily publication. In addition to conversations between artists of all disciplines, BOMB publishes original works of fiction, poetry, and translation. BOMB hosts an annual literary contest, alternating between fiction and poetry each year, with a distinguished guest judge. We encourage submissions of adventurous work that push the boundaries of form or content in some way. Our submission period is open once a year in the fall. Before submitting, we encourage you to read the magazine, online and in print, to acquaint yourself with the material we have published. Subscriptions to BOMB are available here .

Full details S U B M I S S I O N S General Guidelines Please include a short cover letter with your full name and brief bio statement. Include your last name in the title of your submission and in the name of your submission file. If you need to withdraw a part of your submission due to acceptance elsewhere, please add a note to let us know. We accept simultaneous submissions – but please add a note to let us know as soon as it is accepted elsewhere. Please do not submit previously published work. Please wait until you hear back from us before you submit again. Please check the category guidelines for additional submission instructions. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ POETRY Please submit your work on ONE document. Submit up to 5 poems. Each poem should start a new page. Submit to B O D Y __________________________________...

Full details Book*hug Press is a Canadian independent literary publisher specializing in contemporary literary fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, literature in translation, and drama. Please note that we do not publish children’s literature, genre fiction, cookbooks, or self-help books. We seek to acquire books that are bold, contemporary and innovative; work that feels necessary and urgent. We are especially interested in work that challenges and pushes at the boundaries of cultural expectations. We are deeply committed to building a more inclusive CanLit by publishing culturally diverse voices whose work has been historically underrepresented in the publishing landscape. We strongly support feminist writing. When acquiring manuscripts we carefully consider questions such as: whose voices are missing and who are the storytellers that we need most right now? We aim to ensure ensure that our catalogue is reflective of an inclusive and multicultural Canada. We espec...

Copper Nickel accepts submissions of poetry , fiction , essays , and translation folios from September 1 to December 15, January 15 to March 1 . Please submit four to six poems , one story , or one essay at a time, and please wait at least six months between submissions. For prose we do not have any length restrictions —but longer-than-normal pieces have to earn their space . For a translation feature , submit five to ten poems or a piece of prose (fiction or nonfiction). If we accept, we’ll ask for a contextualizing introductory essay of 500-1200 words. We DO accept simultaneous submissions , though we ask you to contact us if submitted work is accepted elsewhere . To withdraw stories, essays, or translation folios , please withdraw through submittable . To withdraw individual poems or flash pieces , please email editor/managing editor Wayne Miller indicating which poems should be withdrawn. Note that you will not receive a direct reply ; the information ...